Chad Byrnes

Todd Field’s latest film opens with an onstage Q&A session in which Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett), a fictional conductor, is being interviewed by real-life wri...

What if you set a John Hughes-inspired comedy in the Middle Ages? This is what Lena Dunham attempts in Catherine Called Birdy, an irreverent PG-13 romp which re...

There’s a good chance that you’ll be gasping for air by the end of Andrew Dominik’s merciless fever dream, Blonde, starring a miraculous Ana de Armas as screen ...

Thanks to a potent performance by Aubrey Plaza, Emily the Criminal packs a punch you won’t see coming. Written and directed by newcomer John Patton Ford, this t...

Writer/Director Lena Dunham (creator of HBO’s Girls) returns to the big screen with Sharp Stick, a coming-of-age story that explores sexuality with such carefre...

Claire Denis’ emotionally searing Both Sides of the Blade opens with a middle-aged couple swimming in a vast, glimmering ocean as they lovingly caress each othe...

Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis has a feral energy you don’t experience often in the movies; not even for a Luhrmann project (he’s a director who notoriously specializes i...

More performance art than music documentary, Andrew Dominik’s This Much I Know to Be True is a stripped down but complex portrait of Australian musician/poet Ni...

A savage and mesmerizing Viking saga like no other, Robert Eggers’ The Northman leaves your senses bludgeoned by the time the credits roll. Like The Witch and T...

Director Peter Sollett (Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist) and screenwriter D.B Weiss (co-creator of Game of Thrones) accomplish the nearly impossible in the...